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Chapter 1 New World Beginnings Flashcards

New World Beginnings
33,000 B.C.E - C.E. 1769
(The American Pageant)

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420556905Incaslocated in Peru cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians
420556906Mayanslocated in Central America cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians
420556907Aztecslocated in Mexico cultivation of maize bulit elaborate cities carried on far-flung commerce talented mathematicians sought favor of the gods by offering human sacrifices
420556908Puebloslocated in the Rio Grande valley constructed intricate irrigation systems to water cornfields dwelling in villages of multistoried, tarraced buildings Pueblo means village in spanish
420556909Creeks, Chocataws, and Cherokeescultavation of maize high yielding strains of beans and squash "three-sister" farming
420556910Iroquois Confederacydeveloped the political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that menaced its neighbors
421579672Vinlanda place loacted near L'Anse aux Meadows in present-day Newfoundland where the Norse first landed in North America.
421579673Portuguese slave tradeencreased the flow of slave trade than that of the pre-European traffic. the 15th century Portuguese adventures in Africa were to be found that they were the origins of the modern plantation system.
421579674Vasco da Gamareached India in 1498
421579675ColumbusOctober 12, 1492 Columbus' crew spotted an island in the Bahamas. indirectly caused the trade networks of between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
421579676Hispaniolapresent-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic
421579677Old World diseasesSmallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever
421579678Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)Spain and Portugal divided the "heathen lands" of the New World
421579679Vasco Nunez Balboaclaimed Panama in 1513 hailed as the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean
421579680Ferdinand Magellanleft Spain in 1519 with five ships only to be killed in the Phillippines and his last ship arrived back in Spain in 1522 completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
421579681Juan Ponce de Leonexplored Florida in 1513, 1521
421579682Francisco Coronadodiscovered adobe pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico in 1540-1542
421579683Hernando de Sotowith 6 hundred armored men marched through Florida looking for gold. he crossed the Mississippi River and the Arkansas River
421579684Hernán Cortésin 1519 Hernán Cortés started his voyage into Mexico. He laid siege to Tenochtitlán on August 13, 1521 He brought his crops, animals, language, laws, customs, and his religion to the poeples of Mexico and they adapted to them.
421579685John Cabotexplored the northern coast of North America in 1497 and 1498
421579686Giovanni da Verrazanoexplored the eastern seaboard in 1524
421579687Robert de La Salleexploration down the Mississippi River in the 1680's
421579688Juan Rodriquez Cabrilloexplored Californian coast in 1542
421579689Father Junipero Serra1769 Spanish missionaries led by Father Junipero Serra founded at San Diego, the first of a chain of 21 missions.

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